From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 250715a6171a076748be8ab88b274e72f0cfb435 upstream. The syzkaller folks reported a NULL pointer dereference that seems to be cause by a race between KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP and KVM_CREATE_PIT2. The former takes kvm->lock (except when registering the devices, which needs kvm->slots_lock); the latter takes kvm->slots_lock only. Change KVM_CREATE_PIT2 to follow the same model as KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP. Testcase: #include <pthread.h> #include <linux/kvm.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> #include <unistd.h> long r[23]; void* thr1(void* arg) { struct kvm_pit_config pitcfg = { .flags = 4 }; switch ((long)arg) { case 0: r[2] = open("/dev/kvm", O_RDONLY|O_ASYNC); break; case 1: r[3] = ioctl(r[2], KVM_CREATE_VM, 0); break; case 2: r[4] = ioctl(r[3], KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, 0); break; case 3: r[22] = ioctl(r[3], KVM_CREATE_PIT2, &pitcfg); break; } return 0; } int main(int argc, char **argv) { long i; pthread_t th[4]; memset(r, -1, sizeof(r)); for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) { pthread_create(&th[i], 0, thr, (void*)i); if (argc > 1 && rand()%2) usleep(rand()%1000); } usleep(20000); return 0; } Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zubin Mithra <zsm@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c | 5 +++-- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c @@ -678,7 +678,6 @@ static const struct kvm_io_device_ops sp .write = speaker_ioport_write, }; -/* Caller must hold slots_lock */ struct kvm_pit *kvm_create_pit(struct kvm *kvm, u32 flags) { struct kvm_pit *pit; @@ -733,6 +732,7 @@ struct kvm_pit *kvm_create_pit(struct kv pit->mask_notifier.func = pit_mask_notifer; kvm_register_irq_mask_notifier(kvm, 0, &pit->mask_notifier); + mutex_lock(&kvm->slots_lock); kvm_iodevice_init(&pit->dev, &pit_dev_ops); ret = kvm_io_bus_register_dev(kvm, KVM_PIO_BUS, KVM_PIT_BASE_ADDRESS, KVM_PIT_MEM_LENGTH, &pit->dev); @@ -747,13 +747,14 @@ struct kvm_pit *kvm_create_pit(struct kv if (ret < 0) goto fail_unregister; } + mutex_unlock(&kvm->slots_lock); return pit; fail_unregister: kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(kvm, KVM_PIO_BUS, &pit->dev); - fail: + mutex_unlock(&kvm->slots_lock); kvm_unregister_irq_mask_notifier(kvm, 0, &pit->mask_notifier); kvm_unregister_irq_ack_notifier(kvm, &pit_state->irq_ack_notifier); kvm_free_irq_source_id(kvm, pit->irq_source_id); --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -3867,7 +3867,7 @@ long kvm_arch_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp sizeof(struct kvm_pit_config))) goto out; create_pit: - mutex_lock(&kvm->slots_lock); + mutex_lock(&kvm->lock); r = -EEXIST; if (kvm->arch.vpit) goto create_pit_unlock; @@ -3876,7 +3876,7 @@ long kvm_arch_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp if (kvm->arch.vpit) r = 0; create_pit_unlock: - mutex_unlock(&kvm->slots_lock); + mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock); break; case KVM_GET_IRQCHIP: { /* 0: PIC master, 1: PIC slave, 2: IOAPIC */